false 79579 835249 0609609017 9780609609019 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178766940m/835249.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178766940s/835249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835249.Ten_Poems_to_Change_Your_Life 4.17 114
Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his own reflections, the author of Sacred America shows how poetry illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the awakening of wonder, the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, and the courage required to live an authentic life. In thoughtful commentary on each work, Housden offers glimpses into his personal spiritual journey and invites readers to contemplate the significance of the poet's message in their own lives.

In Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Roger Housden shows how these astonishing poems can inspire you to live what you always knew in your bones but never had the words for.


"The Journey" by Mary Oliver
"Last Night as I Was Sleeping" by Antonio Machado
"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
"Zero Circle" by Rumi
"The Time Before Death" by Kabir
"Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda
"Last Gods" by Galway Kinnell
"For the Anniversary of My Death" by W. S. Merwin
"Love After Love" by Derek Walcott
"The Dark Night" by St. John of the Cross]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2001 415565 1400047994 9781400047994 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174538574m/415565.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174538574s/415565.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415565.Risking_Everything_110_Poems_of_Love_and_Revelation 4.31 75
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours.

In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson.

The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2003 946850 1400045630 9781400045631 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179701014m/946850.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179701014s/946850.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/946850.Ten_Poems_to_Open_Your_Heart 4.11 38
Through the voices of these ten inspiring poets, and through illustrations from his own life, Housden expresses the tenderness, beauty, joys, and sorrows of love, the presence of which, more than anything else, gives human existence its meaning.

As Housden says in his eloquent introduction, “Great poetry happens when the mind is looking the other way and words fall from the sky to shape a moment that would normally be untranslatable. . . . When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.”]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2003 137542 0060084456 9780060084455 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172089839m/137542.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172089839s/137542.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137542.Chasing_Rumi_A_Fable_About_Finding_the_Heart_s_True_Desire 3.62 39
Through encounters with Christian and Islamic mystics, and guided by forces he cannot name, Georgiou gradually learns to follow his own heart. The closer he gets to Konya and to Rumi's tomb, the more in awe he becomes at the workings of fate. But it is only when Georgiou returns to Florence that his life changes forever in an experience that reveals the mystery of life and love.


In the tradition of The Alchemist and Siddartha, Chasing Rumi is a spellbinding and enduring story for all.

]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2002 699039 1400051126 9781400051120 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177379691m/699039.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177379691s/699039.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699039.Ten_Poems_to_Set_You_Free 4.30 33 Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. These ten poems, and Roger Housden’s reflections on them, urge us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.

This volume brings together the voices of Thomas Merton, David Whyte, the Basque poet Miguel de Unamuno, Anna Swir from Poland, Stanley Kunitz, the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, and Jane Hirshfield, as well as three of Housden’s favorites, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Naomi Shihab Nye. His luminous essays on the poems show us how to integrate the poets’ truth into our own lives.

Roger Housden’s love of poetry and life leaps from every page—so much so that his readers feel they have found a guide and mentor through the extraordinary Ten Poems series. He has opened the eyes and hearts of many, not just to the power of poetry, but to the truth and beauty of the life of the soul. What more can one ask?]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2003 1757749 0307405192 9780307405197 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1757749.Ten_Poems_to_Change_Your_Life_Again_and_Again 3.85 33
That’s why poetry is dangerous. It gives voice to our unspoken dreams; it is a mirror to our own deepest joys, desires, and sorrows. It can tip us over into a new life, into a new way of seeing and being, that a moment ago we might even have had no words for.

In this new volume of his Ten Poems series, Roger Housden takes ten great poems and in personal, intimate essays shows how they led him, and can also lead us, into a more deeply lived and examined life. Housden says, “Every one of the poems in this book has struck me a blow, a direct hit, each of them, into the heart of hearts. Every one of them, in its own way, has opened a door for me to go deeper into my own experience, my own longings, my own sorrows and joys, and into the silence that surrounds all of this, all of us, always.”]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2007 547322 1400051134 9781400051137 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256052389m/547322.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256052389s/547322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/547322.Ten_Poems_to_Last_a_Lifetime 4.19 26
The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and, of course, the ineffable—the things that really matter when the chips are down. He describes these passionate poems as "bread for the soul and fire for the spirit."

The poets Housden has chosen are Billy Collins, Hayden Carruth, Dorianne Laux, James Wright, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Mary Oliver from the United States, D. H. Lawrence and John Keats from England, Rainer Maria Rilke from Germany, Fleur Adcock from New Zealand, and Seng-Ts'an from sixth-century China. And yes, that adds up to eleven, not ten. Housden decided to include a bonus poem for his faithful readers in this, the final volume of the series. As before, Housden's luminous essays provide an elegant and easy passage into the sometimes daunting world of poetry, enabling readers to feel that in him they have found a trusted guide and mentor.


Book link:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksea...]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2004 163882 0307336719 9780307336712 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172328912m/163882.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172328912s/163882.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163882.Seven_Sins_for_a_Life_Worth_Living 3.38 32 Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us.

With elegance, gentle humor, and remarkable openness, Housden takes us along as he recalls his personal journey toward an appreciation of what he calls the Seven Pleasures: The Pleasure of All Five Senses, The Pleasure of Being Foolish,The Pleasure of Not Knowing, The Pleasure of Not Being Perfect, The Pleasure of Doing Nothing Useful, The Pleasure of Being Ordinary, and The Pleasure of Coming Home.

Housden writes, for instance, of submitting to the ultimate folly of falling in love, of celebrating our imperfections, of coming to understand the virtues of the Slow Food movement while enjoying an all-afternoon lunch in a small French village, and of discovering in a Saharan cave that, however extraordinary our surroundings, “we are human, a glorious nothing much to speak of”—and learning to be at peace with the notion.

Such pleasures may be suspect in today’s achievement-driven, tightly scheduled, relent-lessly self-improving, conspicuously consumptive culture, but surely the greater sin lies in letting them slip away moment by precious moment. “The purpose of this book,” says Housden, “is to inspire you to lighten up and fall in love with the world and all that is in it.” Reading it is a pleasure indeed.


“When you die,God and the angels will hold you accountablefor all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.”


Roger Housden, author of the bestselling Ten Poems series, presents a joyously affirmative, warmly personal, and spiritually illuminating meditation on the virtues of opening ourselves up to pleasures like being foolish, not being perfect, and doing nothing useful, the pleasure of not knowing, and even (would you believe it?) the pleasure of being ordinary.]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2005 620579 030734195X 9780307341952 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176397727m/620579.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176397727s/620579.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/620579.Dancing_with_Joy_99_Poems 4.36 22 Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal.

For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being in the company of his ten-year-old son; for Gerald Stern, it is a grapefruit at breakfast; for Billy Collins, a cigarette. Dancing with Joy includes English and Italian classical and romantic works; early Chinese and Persian verse; and poets from Chile, France, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and India, plus a range of contemporary American and English poets.

Whether inspiration is what you need, or an affirmation of what is already joyful in life, Dancing with Joy is a welcome treat for Housden’s numerous fans, as well as anyone looking for sheer happiness, marvelously expressed.]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2007 535620 1400082293 9781400082292 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175615141m/535620.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175615141s/535620.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535620.How_Rembrandt_Reveals_Your_Beautiful_Imperfect_Self_Life_Lessons_from_the_Master 3.29 7
This is a deeply moving and uplifting book. Part biography, part history, part art appreciation, it takes the example of Rembrandt’s life and work as inspiration for the strength we need to live with passion and an unflinching acceptance of who we are.

Roger Housden shows how the incredible life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn can serve as a wise and honest mirror to clarify our own hopes, struggles, and aspirations. The book consists of six lessons that draw on Rembrandt’s self-portraits and life story: Open your eyes; Love this world; Troubles will come; Stand like a tree; Keep the faith; Embrace the inevitable]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2005 699041 0684836998 9780684836997 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177379692m/699041.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177379692s/699041.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699041.Sacred_Journeys_in_a_Modern_World 3.00 2 79579 4.03 433 92 1998 1664851 1855384973 9781855384972 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186560411m/1664851.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186560411s/1664851.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1664851.Travels_Through_Sacred_India 3.00 2 79579 4.03 433 92 1996 6130358 0712653929 9780712653923 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6130358.Soul_and_Sensuality_Returning_the_Erotic_to_Everyday_Life 4.00 1 79579 4.03 433 92 1993 3687444 0684848384 9780684848389 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3687444.Sacred_America_The_Emerging_Spirit_of_the_People 4.00 1 Rather than dryly cataloging all the spiritual diversity that America hosts, Housden allows himself to truly spend time with the people and places he visits. As a result, his reflections carry the substance of a wise man who dwells with people and ideas, asking penetrating questions and listening attentively. As a result, this is armchair pilgrimage at its best--offering keen insight and rich storytelling to grasp "one of the most spiritually vibrant cultures on earth." --Gail Hudson

]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 1999 699040 1855384906 9781855384903 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699040.Retreat_Places_and_Traditions_of_Silence_and_Solitude 0.0 0 79579 4.03 433 92 1995 1095353 0609601644 9780609601648 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180931568m/1095353.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180931568s/1095353.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1095353.The_Tibetan_Oracle_Ancient_Wisdom_for_Everyday_Guidance 0.0 0         
Many divination systems give answers that are cryptic and hard to decipher. The Tibetan Oracle gives clear direction on whether it would be wise to pursue a given action or not, and what the consequences of the action are likely to be. The esoteric knowledge of the Tibetans taught them that nature is constantly changing. Going against the elemental forces, personified by four gods (Yama/Wind, Agni/Fire, Varuna/Water, and Indra/Earth), could mean disaster, while taking advantage when these forces are favorable results in success. Use this oracle to help you with decision-making, from whether to take a new job or relocate to when to invest or ask for a raise. Timing is everything, so let this oracle show you when to act--and when not to.]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 1998 2221533 1852301333 9781852301330 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221533.Fire_in_the_Heart_Everyday_Life_As_Spiritual_Practice 0.0 0 79579 4.03 433 92 1991 1820192 1855381893 9781855381896 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1820192.We_Two_Couples_Talk_About_Living_Loving_and_Working_Partnerships_for_the_90s 0.0 0 79579 4.03 433 92 1993 6513033 1401923879 9781401923877 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6513033-for-lovers-of-god-everywhere 0.0 0 Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian  contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and Kabir) have reached a wide audience in recent years, the poetry of the Christian mystics has yet to be discovered by a general audience. For Lovers of God Everywhere, a collection of nearly 100 poems from both historic and contemporary writers,  heralds the reemergence of the great spiritual voices of the Christian tradition—a tradition with its own love songs to God, cries of longing, and bliss of union. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in">                In this collection, Roger introduces us to some of the foremost poets of both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. He takes us from the wisdom of the Desert Fathers to the passion of St. Augustine, through the medieval ecstasies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena, to the subtleties of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila; and on to contemporary voices such as Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, and Mary Oliver. Roger’s insightful commentary on each poem inspires us to take its words more deeply into our souls and shows how the mystical tradition transcends sectarian divides and speaks to the heart of humanity.</p> </DIV>]]> 79579 4.03 433 92 2009